Research Article

Study of the Genetic Diversity of the Ornamental Fish Badis badis (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822) in the Terai Region of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, India

Table 3

Within and between populations genetic diversity, evenness, and inbreeding coefficient of B. badis based on RAPD analyses.

Population name(±SD)Effective number of alleles (±SD)Proportion of polymorphic loci (±SD) or (±SD)

M1/M21.4500 ± 0.49961.2863 ± 0.36970.4416 (44.16%)0.1654 ± 0.20230.2450 ± 0.29070.88110.1387
B1/B21.5041 ± 0.50211.3502 ± 0.39460.5041 (50.41%)0.1983 ± 0.21260.2901 ± 0.30370.88860.1316
M1/M2 and B1/B21.6733 ± 0.47061.3752 ± 0.36420.6733 (67.33%)0.2228 ± 0.19340.3364 ± 0.27470.83600.1290
Mahananda-Balason river system1.4372 ± 0.46801.2894 ± 0.37240.4371 (43.71%)0.1601 ± 0.19440.2363 ± 0.27820.88760.0884

: Observed number of alleles or richness; : Nei’s gene diversity; or : Shannon’s information index; : measure of evenness; = /1 − = Inbreeding coefficient.